Ben grew up in central Washington and southern California, where he became interested in the history of environmental engineering and design. He holds a BA from Pomona College and an MLA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Sarah Cowles is the Director of Ruderal, a landscape architecture, urban design, and planning studio in Tbilisi, providing design and construction management services for the Georgian and international markets.

Disturbance-adapted.

Giorgi is from Tbilisi, Georgia where he is engaged in the local scene of architecture as an instructor in VA[A]DS. In Ruderal his main interest is to develop robust ways of Landscape representation.